Sentence examples for someone aloof from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mbeki was president for nine years, and his image slowly warped from someone aloof but well intentioned to someone secretive and conniving.

Yet, people aren't automatons, they are feeling, caring and emotional beings, and if there's the perception that someone is aloof, cold and distant, that does color their view of that person, and almost never favorably.

"I guess his reputation is someone who's aloof," Mara said.

He was criticized as lacking fire and leadership, as aloof, someone who stood alone on the sideline.

"The descriptions of Mr Brady right at the beginning when he was in prison are of someone who was aloof, disinterested in others, didn't have close relationships and I think in prison he would in effect isolate himself from interaction with others … these are aspects of his personality characteristics.

But she was also known as someone who held herself aloof from parents, teachers and principals.

They may feel desperate or clingy when someone pulls away, then aloof and withdrawn when someone comes toward them.

She was sometimes portrayed in that race as an aloof 1 percenter — as someone who pushed around subordinates, once literally, and who was unkind to her housekeeper, an illegal immigrant.

He manifested a serenity that "wasn't that of the ignorant or aloof" but came from someone bolstered by his religious faith, a "keen sense of destiny" and a "ready acceptance of fate".

Will they be working for someone who is selfish, controlling or aloof?

For Mr. Bush they reveal someone who prefers to be aloof from detail, but who may not be able to pull that off with the ease of a Ronald Reagan.